Inside Sienna Miller's Secluded Country Cottage | Open Door | Architectural Digest

hello a.d i'm sienna miller welcome to my cottage [Music] i'm going to start in the kitchen because that's where everybody always ends up in the last year i've redecorated the house with my great friend gabby dalau who is a film director but has the best taste of anyone i've ever met so in lockdown when she was panicking about what to do because her film was pushed i said you can do up my cottage and she did i bought this house when i was 25 in a moment of real panic i was sort of in london and life was very intense and i just was dreaming about having a place to get away to and i saw this place online it's about 45 minutes from london and it was on to rent or buy and i thought i'll rent it for a year and i came to see it and fell completely in love and bought it it's really my sanctuary it's where i come to do nothing 1920s crittle doors bring me a lot of joy i mean the new ones just don't look like that so i'm thrilled with them and i think that having such an old house is a magical thing but having contemporary touches in it really work this is probably my favorite thing because it's just the most beautiful lacon stove i have dreamt about having a big stove and i've never ever had one before and i love to cook so if i'm in a city or in the country or anywhere and there is a sunday there will be food being cooked and it's magical to have this much space and christmas dinners before we had a tiny oven and it was hell so that's been wonderful i bought it off this couple that had done it up and they sold me the house with all the furniture and it was lovely it was very traditional english cottage it's now much more sophisticated and evolved and i think much more how my taste actually is i'd sort of inherited somebody else's vision and made it my own but it was never quite right so we've done a complete refurb in here [Music] thatch is funny it's like the biggest tiny house you've ever seen somehow it keeps on going it's like a rabbit warren and and it can it's got five bedrooms so it can sleep i said it's got six bedrooms it can sleep 12 people but it's little so i realized that we needed a big space for lots of people and so when we've got a lot of people this is where we would have dinner i love that we've got the height of that balcony there because it is low otherwise but this is all part of the extension that was done in the 1970s and obviously we've got this enormous fireplace at christmas time we put the tree here and we move this armchair and decorate all of this with foliage and lights and a roaring fire and some tipsy person will get on the piano bash out a tune this was a gift from my first boyfriend which i've still got and i'm very attached to and i love all the colors in this space because although it's old it's got a kind of contemporary feel it's funny because it's such a cozy house but it really does work in the summer as well in lots of areas of the house we've added mirrors just to kind of create the illusion of more space than there is and there's a beautiful one there which is fun for kids to look at and perform in and the design of this was done as i said by gabby dalal who is really my other mother i love colors and different textures this is a corduroy armchair we actually recovered this because it was my mum's from when she and my dad lived in hong kong it was a big white armchair that's completely falling apart but has sentimental value so it's recovered with kind of clashing prints the art is from all over the place this was a gift from my godmother christine this is a new artist who i met recently freda jones and she's brilliant but i love the details of the stained glass for example because of the light that it creates and i think gabby being a film director is very intensely focused on light and playing with that this used to be an unstable door and we've replaced it with a beautiful old door and lovely painted glass that's where we stock the booze you have to be quite creative with the little house of where you keep things well i can see a few spider webs but that's the countryside and wine essential at a country cottage this is the snuggly room where we all watch tv this is the old old part of the house and it used to be the kitchen so it's very very low but magical and cozy and in winter we light the fire and it's a beautiful old roaring fire and watch old movies at christmas and it's about as dreamy as it can be the color on the walls it's a cream color but it's also got a tiny hint of pink and gabby actually had this pigment made up so that it's got a real warmth but it's not too heavy this is by my godmother carol davis who's an extraordinary artist that was a christmas present from mum and i love mixing old style of painting with contemporary painting and there are all sorts of bits around the house that you'll see but she's pretty cool this lady all this part of the house from the 70s extension part is original and 16th century which is extraordinary that families in 1550 were living in this house and i really haven't touched anything not that i could because it's all landmark trusted but it's all original beams and the sense of history is really magical so these two pictures on the wall are by my friend an amazing director called john mabry and he came over to my flat when i was living in london and we had a late night and i woke up in the morning and there were these pictures oh look 2006 john mayberry yeah those are two of my favorite things i own and they're just on scrappy bits of cardboard but i think they really make the room magical because he's pretty magical so this is yeah this is where we relax this is it the snug not very big but very cozy [Music] this is the original staircase that we kind of scrubbed and painted there and we exposed this and made it into a bookshelf it's a funny amalgamation of kids books my copy from my classics class of the odyssey of homer with some notes in it very impressive some shakespeare history of england which i've pilfered from someone since stanislavski i went to the strasbourg school of acting and lee strasberg's inspiration was constantine stanislavski so this is called an actor's handbook that is well-thumbed i can't remember reading it but i must have done because that's dog-eared maybe i gave up lots of history and memories there this is marlo's room there's marlo on the bed reading we love that book it's a greek mythology book we sound like a bunch of classicists and we aren't but i like what that says this room is really sweet it feels like something out of jane austen the beds are quite little for somebody who's growing quite fast but gabby was brilliant she found these this amazing linen and then it's actually wool and then she found sheepskins and she got them sewn onto the headboard so that's just a cozy detail for little girls going to sleep and again the windows are so small that it's hard to get curtains you don't want little crop curtains so we've got these sheepy bits of fabric that hook up and come down at night yeah this room is pretty much what it would have been we haven't done anything to it except paint it and move furniture around but it's got a really magical feel did you not manage to get that back up and we've hidden loads of the toys it's none of this house ever looks this tidy but that's the beauty of making a film [Music] leaving marlo's room this is the hallway this is the stairs we came up and i didn't show you that but that's a 1930s french london parisian lantern that i love there's a guest room again in lovely space and then this is the hallway we created this reading nook for marlo because there's not much space in this hobbity little house but we've got lots of her toys and books and in homeschooling there was a little desk there so she could look out at the meadow so this is my bedroom this has been completely changed and we could do that because it's the 1970s part of the house and it's not listed but this bedroom before kind of ended where those beams ended there was a cupboard there my bed was here it was really low and quite pokey and gabby had this genius idea to knock into the rafters and keep the beams as they were i actually just sometimes can't believe the difference in this bedroom i should try and find a photo of what it used to be like but it was nothing like this this incredible wallpaper is by maison c and i've been obsessed with that print sort of naked witchy ladies dancing which i think is appropriate for my mood and lying in here any time of year and being able to look out of the window gabby found these old doors with old panes of glass and we've got the murano lantern thing which does create the most magical light and then in summer i like to open these doors and sometimes sleep with them open and having them open and lying in bed or having them open with the bath and the bird song and the trees is definitely about as happy as i will ever be there's a plane going overhead because there's a flying school nearby but they're not ugly at all planes they're quite pretty some of them that's what you can hear there it's quite unfortunate when you're rolling sound [Music] this is the bathroom with old saloon doors a lovely shower these beautiful moroccan tiles but yeah here's some of my stuff but in my perfume which i know i'll add that now and then in here are all the cupboards hundreds of pairs of jeans and comfy jumpers this is where i keep the stuff that i probably wouldn't be seen in but is really snuggly snuggly clothes lots of tracksuit bottoms this is clever because the light comes on i love that when you open it you'll see everything is like a shearling or a bit of knitted sock it's cozy clothes when you're at thatch that's my closet the light does bring me a lot of joy but not much room to wear much makeup which is a good thing because i never wear makeup when i'm at this house ever who needs to so this is again this is part of the hallway and this is we call it the juliet balcony marlo sometimes stands up here with her friends and we'll put on performances and what's quite fun about that is there is this beautiful red velvet curtain that you can pull back in a very theatrical way this curtain was from my first ever flat in london it had really really tall ceilings and i had these made and then gabby line them with this fantastic old linen and they look so beautiful and yeah peek over the edge and see how good of a performance space this actually is because you can have dinner down there and look up at the kids [Music] come out into the garden the meadow there's a little pond there's marlo's play house and the barbecue but come to maybe the most romantic bedroom on the property these amazing old doors and this is what we call the outhouse where i send my friends who are madly in love because it's very romantic there's a wood-burning stove in winter people like to write or read here there's a little walk-in shower lou what i think is magical about this was that what it used to be was just a horrible storage space with old bicycles and old furniture and and it was nothing it was never used but it was always a really beautiful building gabby cleaned it all out and she added these amazing details on the roof their old signs that she found and embedded into the ceiling and that was a surprise the only thing that she didn't tell me she was doing it's details like that i just think add magical character to a place it's very peaceful in here and actually i need to come and spend a night in it because it's really really relaxing [Music] [Applause] so the cottage is on a private estate that has belonged to a family for hundreds of years and the gardens down at the bottom were designed by capability brown who was an extraordinary garden designer and they let me roam around their beautifully manicured park land that this property that belongs to me is about one and a half acres and it's the only freehold cottage on the estate but there's a game keeper up the road and there's somebody else who works on the estate down there so it feels very very isolated but it's nice to know that there are people nearby yeah this is the meadow thanks for coming ad i hope you enjoyed looking around my home come back anytime bye [Music]

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Length: 12min 23sec (743 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 01 2022